Testimony

Artistic research
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Artistic research

Presence research uses many methodologies from the medical and natural sciences as well as…
Design for experience
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Design for experience

Design for presence needs to include the complex notion of design for experience. We make choices…
Main issues of controversy on the notion of Presence as a value for design
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Main issues of controversy on the notion of Presence as a value for design

A first issue of controversy is that presence is a fuzzy concept. Most measurements in the ‘being
Day 02
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Day 02

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Technology can drive social change
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Technology can drive social change
Biology and Engineering - Day 2
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Biology and Engineering - Day 2

Biology and Engineering speak different languages but when brought together, they may prove be the…
Cerqueda Codina workspace
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Cerqueda Codina workspace
Outcomes: 1- Time : Systems and structures are host to personal empty time
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Outcomes: 1- Time : Systems and structures are host to personal empty time

With the ubiquitous presence of media and the Internet in the day-to-day life of at least 1 billion…
Witness
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Witness

For thousands of years the being-witness-to-each-other defines dynamics in religious and non
Performance
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Performance

In social interaction people perform presence in relation to one another. When meeting a grim face…
Figure 6: PIERRE HUYGHE, Stills from A Journey that wasn’t, 2005
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Figure 6: PIERRE HUYGHE, Stills from A Journey that wasn’t, 2005

Super 16mm film and HD video transferred to HD video, color, sound 21 minutes 41 seconds (Inv.#9953…
Media-auric effect
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Media-auric effect

Huyghe’s work, therefore, can only be fully understood with the help of a conceptual framework that…
Pierre Huyghe: A Journey that wasn’t
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Pierre Huyghe: A Journey that wasn’t

Now, Huyghe’s A Journey that wasn’t evokes fiction by its title alone because of its poetic denial…
Crown witness seizes media's process of signification
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Crown witness seizes media's process of signification

The reason why this work relates not only to physical and mediated presence (the actual event…
Media change dynamic of Apostrophe
ACADEMIA

Media change dynamic of Apostrophe

One pivotal aspect with regard to theatricality is that it manifests itself in a present, in the…
No false witnessing
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No false witnessing

Walker’s solution, by digging in history and archives and turning the objects she has found into an…
After the Deluge, by Kara Walker
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After the Deluge, by Kara Walker

The work that Walker made shortly after hurricane Katrina had caused the flooding of New Orleans…
The Jewelled Hair-comb, by Maria Dermôut
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The Jewelled Hair-comb, by Maria Dermôut

Maria Dermôut was born in Pekalongan, in 1888 as a member of a family that had lived in the Dutch…
Mobile Stories
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Mobile Stories

This is a summary of the stories collected during a collaboration with young women in a slum of…
Violence as natural principle
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Violence as natural principle

"You can also take a positive view of violence and regard it as a kind of life energy, a driving…
My first article
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My first article

Functional design
Being host to a witness
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Being host to a witness

How to meet a witness, depends on what the witness is witness to. If it's to the destruction of…
The good witness
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The good witness

For MacFaydyen a good witness is critical to investigating or reporting. A good witness is someone…
Bloggers telling the truth
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Bloggers telling the truth

Given current technology the Internet facilitates millions of bloggers offering stories that could…